How is your week going so far? With Mental Sunshine I try to bring you a simple tip each week to help improve your mood – to improve the Mental Sunshine in your life. This week’s tip is so simple, you might think it’s quite ridiculous. This week’s tip is to have a conversation. Yes, […]

How are you feeling today? How’s that to-do list looking? After last week’s tip to “eat that frog” I thought that for this week’s Mental Sunshine we would head in exactly the other direction. For this week’s Mental Sunshine, my tip is: STOP. I know what you’re thinking: Are you MAD?! But I’ve got so

How is your to-do list looking? Today’s Mental Sunshine comes from a quote from Mark Twain: If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first. No, this email is

Isn’t it lovely to see signs of spring all around us? The mornings and evenings are lighter; the daffodils are beginning to bloom; the birds are singing! This weekend the clocks go forward  – which is not quite as delicious as the extra hour we all got back in autumn! In the UK we also

Yesterday was the spring equinox – we are officially now in springtime! It was also International Day of Happiness And today is World Poetry Day So I thought for this week’s Mental Sunshine I would share a short poem to brighten your day: And to help embed the habit of happiness Happy the Man by

Welcome to another edition of Mental Sunshine. This week’s post is all about happiness. Did you know that next Wednesday, 20th March, is International Day of Happiness? This day was established by the United Nations General Assembly. The aim is to help people around the world to realise the importance of happiness in their lives.

Did you know that today is World Book Day? You might think that’s something that’s only for children – But there’s no reason we adults can’t join in! Don’t worry; I’m not expecting you to wear your Very Hungry Caterpillar costume to work… unless you want to! Since it’s World Book Day today, I thought

Happy Leap Day! How are your Mental Sunshine levels this week? Tomorrow is the beginning of a new month. It’s also Global Day of Unplugging and World Compliment Day. Global Day of Unplugging is something initiated by the US Surgeon General in an attempt to combat loneliness. He feels that we all spend so much

Did you know that today is World Thinking Day? For those who were in the Girl Guides growing up, that might sound familiar. World Thinking Day began in 1926, and is celebrated on February 22nd every year by the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Now, I’m fairly sure many of us are

How is your Mental Sunshine today? If you could do with a little more (and who couldn’t), I have a great tip this week that will help to make things brighter. Have I told you that I love to go cold water swimming (only once or twice lol). Well at my usual lake, we’ve introduced